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Eastern Kentucky residents debate rewilding former mine or turning it into a prison

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Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam free.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Grist's Katie Myers about the activists who want to keep the land from becoming another industrial hazard to the area.

This segment aired on February 12, 2025.

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